Though he slay me, yet will I trust in him: but I will maintain mine own ways before him.

-Bible (Old Testament)
Job13:15.

O L, thou hast searched me, and known me. Thou knowest my downsitting and mine uprising, thou understandest my thought afar off. Thou compassest my path and my lying down, and art acquainted with all my ways. For there is not a word in my tongue, but, lo,O L, thou knowest it altogether. Thou hast beset me behind and before, and laid thine hand upon me. Such knowledge is too wonderful for me; it is high, I cannot attain unto it.

-Bible (Old Testament)
ORDORDPsalms139:1^6.

Happy is the man that findeth wisdom, and the man that gettethunderstanding.For themerchandise of it isbetter than the merchandise of silver, and the gain thereof than fine gold. She is more precious than rubies: and all the thingsthoucanst desirearenottobe compared untoher. Length of days is in her right hand; and in her left hand riches and honour. Her ways are ways of pleasantness, and all her paths are peace. She is a tree of life to them that lay hold upon her: and happy is every one that retaineth her.

-Bible (Old Testament)
Proverbs 3:13^18.

For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the L. For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts.

-Bible (Old Testament)
ORDIsaiah 55:8^9.

   How do I love thee? Let me count the ways!ö I love thee to the depth and breadth and height My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight For the ends of Being and Ideal Grace.

-Browning, Elizabeth ne¤  e Barrett
  Poems,'Sonnets from the Portuguese', sonnet 43.

I ask you to look both ways.For the road to a knowledge of the stars leads through the atom; and important knowledge of the atom has been reached through the stars.

-Eddington, SirArthur Stanley
  Stars and  Atoms, lecture1.

A cold coming we had of it, Just the worst time of the year For a journey, and such a long journey: The ways deep and the weather sharp, The very dead of winter.

-Eliot,T(homas) S(tearns)
  'The  Journey of the Magi'.

If the red slayer think he slays, Or if the slain think he is slain, They know not well the subtle ways I keep, and pass, and turn again. See Lang 488:90.

-Emerson, RalphWaldo
  'Brahma'. Collected in May Day (1867).

The gentle and respectful ways of saying 'To hell with you'are being abandoned.

-Fergusson, Robert
Recalled on her death,16 Sep1993.

   When you have shot one bird flying you have shot all birds flying. Theyare all different and they fly in different ways but the sensation is the same and the last one is as good as the first.

-Hemingway, Ernest Millar
  Winner Take Nothing,'Fathers and Sons'.

  My crooked winding ways, wherein I live.

-Herbert, George
'A  Wreath', collected in The Temple, Sacred Poems and Private Ejaculations (published posthumously,1633).

The laws of God, the laws of man, He may keep that will and can; Not I: let God and man decree Laws for themselves and not for me; And if my ways are not as theirs Let them mind their own affairs.

-Housman, A(lfred) E(dward)
  Last Poems, no.12.

   There are nine and sixty ways of constructing tribal lays, Andöeveryösingleöoneöoföthemöisöright!

-Kipling, (Joseph) Rudyard
  'In the Neolithic  Age'.

Praise to the Holiest in the height, And in the depth be praise; In all His words most wonderful, Most sure in all His ways.

-Newman,John Henry
  The Dream of Gerontius. In The Month (published in book form in1866).

Lady, lady, should you meet One whose ways are all discreet, One who murmurs that his wife Is the lodestar of his life, One who keeps assuring you That he never was untrue, Never loved another one† Lady, lady, better run!

-Parker, Dorothy ne¤  e Rothschild
  Enough Rope,'Social Note'.

It was not like your great and gracious ways! Do you, that have naught other to lament, Never, my love, repent.

-Patmore, Coventry Kersey Dighton
  To the Unknown Eros, bk.1, no.8,'Departure'.

   Eye Nature's walks, shoot Folly as it flies, And catch the Manners living as they rise. Laugh where we must, be candid where we can; But vindicate the ways of God to man. See Milton 580:93.

-Pope, Alexander
  An Essay on Man, epistle1, l.13^16.

   What's freedom for? To know eternity. I swear she cast a shadow white as stone. But who would count eternity in days? These old bones live to learn her wanton ways: (I measure time by how a body sways).

-Rogers,Will
  Words for theWind,'I Knew aWoman'.

Do all the good you can By all the means you can In all the ways you can In all the places you can To all the people you can As long as ever you can.

-Wesley,John
  'Rules of Conduct'.